stinter
(ˈstɪntə(r))
[+ -er1.]
One who or something which stints, in the senses of the verb.
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 140 If there..the Sun (the Season's stinter) Made no hot Summer, nor no hoary Winter. 1611 Cotgr., Limiteur, a limiter, bounder, stinter. 1701 Mem. St. Giles's (Surtees) 96 All these present Inhabitants..not booked as Stinters, or y{supt} have not paid for..their Gates on our stinted Pasture..shall have no right there without paying..Six pounds in hand for their six Gates. a 1716 South Serm. (1727) II. 112 Let us now see whether a Set-form, or this Extemporary way, be the greater hinderer, and stinter of it [the Spirit of Prayer]. |